meeting ideas

[Sean]

I think the concept is interesting, but hell I would probably have to go
to all the newbies sessions. 

how about something like this:
30 minutes of newbie session.
15 minutes of newbie q&a's/break
20 minutes of general business (non-tech club issues)
regular presentation
10 minutes of presentation q&a's
the rest for any other Q&A's and general discussion.

The only thing I really like about this is you have the newbie session and
the general business next to each other. And it offers the option to club
members to come for the first half or the second half presentation and 
still be involved in the general business issues. it also gets the newbies
involved and incorporated into the meetings and leaves a nice break point.

*shrugs*
feel free to trash it =)



Feel free to edit =)
 
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Benjamin Minshall wrote:

> You wrote:
> 
> > From: Mark Szidik - MLC <szidikm@mlc.lib.mi.us>
> > To: linux-user@egr.msu.edu
> > Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 11:03:37 -0400 (EDT)
> > Subject: meeting ideas
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I have been thinking about some things for a while.  I finally decided
> > to post it to the group to get some feedback.
> > 
> > My goal in all of the discussion below is to get more people excited
> > about Linux and coming to the meetings.
> > 
> > 
> > I have noticed that a lot of our meeting topics lean towards the more
> > tech savvy people.  Although I think they are great and provide a
> > lot of insight, many newbies to GNU/Linux probably have a hard
> > time with the presentations. 
> > 
> > I have noticed that new faces will show-up for a meeting or two and then
> > disappear.  There are probably many factors contributing to this, but I
> > suspect that part of it is that the meeting format and topics are not
> > newbie friendly.
> > 
> > What do you think of a "newbie series" of presentations for those people
> > that are just getting started out with Linux and GNU software?  Think of
> > it as a follow-on to the install-fest.  
> > 
> > Here are some topics:  
> >  (they will all be short - under 1 hour, and intended to get a new
> > person heading in the right direction)
> >  
> > The GNU &amp; Open Source philosophy and licensing issues
> > 
> >  Intro to Linux basics  - the shell, basic commands and tools, file
> >  locations, the *nix model (the everything is a file idea)
> > 
> >  Editors - vi and pico   (<duck>I dont do Emacs)
> > 
> >  The X window system
> >  
> >  File systems and partitions
> >  
> >  Networking basics - intro to Ethernet, IP and the ISO model, wire
> >  (I did this presentation a while ago, so I am ready to give it)
> > 
> > 
> > I am willing to do all of these presentations.  I just need to figure
> > out a way to incorporate it into our meeting format.  I think we dont
> > want these to be our main meeting topics because our techies will get
> > bored.  I am thinking that we could hold our normal meeting with a
> > normal topic, and I (or other volunteers) will go off for 45 minutes to
> > teach the newbie course and then we will all join-up at the end for
> > general discussion and Q &amp; A like we do now.
> > 
> > Comments?
> > 
> > 
> 
> I like the idea of splitting into newbie section and a don't-try-this-at-home
> section.  However, I think we could do it all in one meeting, just at
> different times.  Like have a half-hour every meeting for newbie stuff then
> have the regular presentation.  That would give newbies a chance to meet people
> during the meeting and not be sent off to the "newbie room".  
> 
> -Ben
> > 
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